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2004 PROCLAMATIONS, 1e14. of stress of weather or of her requiring provisions or things necessary for the subsistence of her crew or for repairs; m any of which cases ` the authorities of the port or oi the nearest port (as the case may be) shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four hours, without plermittrng her to take in supplies beyond what may be necessary for er immediate use; and no such vessel which may have been permitted to remain within the waters of the United States for the purpose of repair shall continue within such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters for a onger period than tweigy-four hours after her necessary repairs shall have been com— ple , unless within such twenty-four hours a vessel whether ship of war, privateer, or merchant ship of an oplposing belhgerent, s all have departed therefrom, in w 'ch case e time lrmrted for the departure of such ship of war or privateer shall be extended so far as may be necessary to secure an interval of not less than twenty-four hours between such departure and that of any shipl of war, privateer, or merchant ship of an oplpprsing be nt whic may have previously quit the same pgrt, bor r ad, or waters. No s 'poof war or privateer of a lligerent shall be detained in any port, har r, roadstead, or waters of the United States more than twenty-four hours, by reason of the suceemive departures from such port, harbor, roadstead, orwaters of more thancmevesselofano belligerent. But if there be several vessels of posing b ts in the same {ppm-t, harbor, roadstead, or waters, {the order of eir de arture there m shall be so arranged as to aiford the opportunity of lleaving alternately to the vessek of the op belligerents, and to cause the least detention consistent with . jects of this proclamation. lie ship of war or privateer of a belligerent shall be permitted, while m any port, harbor, roadstead, or waters within the jurisdiction of the United States, to take m any supplies except provisions and such other thmgs as may be requisite for the subsistence of her crew, and encept so much coal only as maybe sufficient to carry such vessel, if without any power, to the nearest ort of her own country · or in case the vessel rs rigged to agp under and may also be ropelled by steam power, then with h the quantity of coal which she would be ent1tle_ to receive, if dependent upon steam alone, and no coal shall be again supplied to any such ship of war or privateer in the same or any other port, harhor, roadstead or waters of the United States, without special permission, rmtil after the expiration of three months frpur the time when such coal may have been last supplied to her within the waters of the United States, unlem such slzup of war or pnvateer shall, since last thus supplied, have entered a port of the government to which she belongs. ,,,S,§,§°,{,,,,’}f,“,§,{°“" ‘° And I do further declare and proclaim that the statutes and the treaties of the United States and the law of nations alike require that no person, within the territory and jxuisdiction of the United States sha _ take part, chrecthy or indirectly, in the said wars, but shall remain at peace with al of the said belligerents, and shall maintain a 0 is stnct and impartial neutrality. ··-"*·-‘==‘i‘“° °‘ “sorlsm1ie;idd0inhgGr<(ii·)yb‘:>‘iri;m i?;chDSt)fd}t)UDit0d§ur1t%sdt6Si’t&iudallIl(hd·- _ e em o or c on o e United States, to phserve the laws thereof, Ltd to izommit no act coutrary to the provisions of the said statutes or treaties or in violation _ _ of the law of nations in that behalf. ,,’§§‘,§,'§h§‘,§§,§fg,P°‘“€· And do hereby warn all_citizens of the United States, and all r- sons resrding or being wrthm 1ts temtory_ or jurisdiction that, wgle the free and full expression of sympathies m public and private is not réslhiréctedtby the of hhllhe Ulzited Statega military forces in aid of a 0 _ _ eren canno a or at or o anized within its ag°m°b°°d ‘ 'u’]u1'1Sd.1Ct10D; and that, whge all may laiivgfrrlly and without